Last night I live blogged an incredible sit-in at the Copenhagen climate negotiations.
Posted 12.15.2009 | World
The Liberal Party of Canada has been forced to apologize after showing a fake picture of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper being assassinated...
AP | BEN FOX | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
A misconstrued text message announcing the passing of a beloved pet has sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity in Canada....
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.
AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
TORONTO — One of Canada's opposition parties said Tuesday it will prop up Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government in a ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
My hope is that Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest.
AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
TORONTO — Canada will not extend its mission in Afghanistan even if President Barack Obama asks him to when the countries' leaders meet this wee...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
Canada's P.M. Stephen Harper will be in DC this week trying to ride Obama's coattails on clean energy. Here's a quick and easy rundown of this right-wing George Bush light leader of the North.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Right-Wing pundits are polluting constructive dialogue about health care reform, many times citing immigration as mark against it.
Christine Neumann-Ortiz | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
What President Obama and other Democrats fail to take into account is that the Latino community can't wait till 2010 for justice to arrive.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A day before facing a potentially boisterous town hall in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama praised the spirited debat...
Shirin Neshat | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
Maziar is a jewel of an artist who is now wrongfully trapped in an Iranian prison. So I am asking you, Prime Minister Harper, on behalf of Maziar Bahari, will you demand his freedom?
Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
UPDATED: Speaker of the Senate of Canada Noel A. Kinsella, issued the following statement: "I would like to state that I personally witnessed Prime Mi...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Twitter may have succeeded in proving to the world how much the Iranian people want change, but Internet technologies cannot deliver real freedom and hope.
Don Tapscott | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
What has changed that would explain why negative advertising is losing its punch in Canada? The answer is the election of President Barack Obama by the young voters of America.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
President Obama got it right when he finally decided not to participate in Durban II, the UN "Anti-Racism" Conference in Geneva.
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
Canada's CBC News reports that the traditional photo of the G-20 leaders had to be retaken after one world leader failed to show up. [Canadian Primer...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
A funny thing happened as I was watching President Obama's press conference with Prime Minister Harper in Ottawa: I did not cringe with embarrassment.
Don Parker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
Bush warned Prime Minister Stephen Harper that Canada must take swift action to scatter the terrorist geese, or America will.
Globe and Mail | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
Canadian opposition leader Stephane Dion announced he would step down as Liberal Party leader yesterday. After other candidates backed out, Michael Ig...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
The New York Times reports that the evening before Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down Parliament to ensure he stayed in power, both he a...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
In the scheme of great challenges faces the incoming Obama administration, an internal threat to Canada's democracy just ain't on anyone's priority list.
AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Parliament on Thursday to avoid almost certain defeat in a confidence vote _ an unprecedented m...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
I thought this type of thing only happened in rogue African nations. The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, was just given the go-ahead to shu...
Whit Jones | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green